Robert Kotick, president and CEO of Activision Blizzard, discusses the company's earnings and outlook.

Robert Kotick, president and CEO of Activision Blizzard, discusses the company's earnings and outlook. Due to the better-than-expected performance of its titles at retail, Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that its March quarter net revenues and earnings per diluted share are tracking ahead of the company's prior outlook. On February 11, 2009, the company provided an outlook for the March quarter of $860 million in GAAP net revenues and GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.08. On a non-GAAP basis, on February 11, 2009, the company provided an outlook of $550 million in net revenues and earnings per diluted share of $0.03.
"Global consumer response to the Call of Duty(R) and Guitar Hero(R) franchises and Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft(R) remains strong despite the challenging economic environment," said Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. "We exceeded our quarterly financial goals as the video game market continues to grow and our franchises continue to perform. This bodes well for our upcoming spring titles Transformers(TM): Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine(TM) and Ice Age(TM): Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which are inspired by theatrical feature films releases, Prototype(TM), a new intellectual property, and the release of Guitar Hero Smash Hits(TM) as well as continued sales of our recently released Guitar Hero Metallica(R) game."